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from a musical soul.
The other day I was feeling quite 1 , having just been laid off from my job. With so many 2
to pay, I was wondering what was going to happen to my family.
I got off the bus when I heard piano music and singing rising above the noise of the 3 . I walked a
bit slower, trying to find out where it was coming from. Through the 4 I saw a young lady sitting at
a piano with a box next to her.
She was singing songs about love and her sweet voice 5 me a bit. Then I stood there watching
her playing, thinking that it must take 6 to perform on her own in front of hundreds of people she
didn"t know.
She might have felt my 7 for she occasionally looked in my direction.
By now I was telling myself that I could at least tell her how good she sounded. I walked 8 and put
some money in her box and she expressed her thanks with a smile on her face.
I asked her 9 , "Why are you playing the piano in the middle of this crowded place?"
She explained to me that she sees so many 10 people in the world that she is trying to relieve the
pain by 11 motivational music.
Instead of continuing my way home, I said to her, "I have been going through a 12 time lately, but
you"ve made me 13 again."
"I"m happy that I could be 14 to you," she replied. "Why are you so sad?"
I told her my story and said, "I"m not so 15 about what to do…."
"You see, here"s the 16 ," she responded. "When you were walking, your head was down." She
looked me in the eyes and went on, "Don"t look defeated, because 17 comes in different ways and
if your head is down you might never see it. You should 18 more …lift your head up."
I was really 19 by what she said! I did hold my head up and soon got through the difficult time.
So 20 in trouble, just face it bravely and you are sure to overcome your difficulty sooner or later.
( )1. A. lonely ( )2. A. bills ( )3. A. listeners ( )4. A. trees ( )5. A. shocked ( )6. A. courage ( )7. A. mood ( )8. A. aside ( )9. A. quietly ( )10.A. negative ( )11.A. creating ( )12.A. tense ( )13.A. enthusiastic ( )14.A. available ( )15.A. sure ( )16.A. problem ( )17.A. success ( )18.A. concentrate ( )19.A. occupied ( )20.A. however | B. dizzy B. fees B. traffic B. avenue B. comforted B. energy B. presence B. down B. deliberately B. unhealthy B. sharing B. wonderful B. emotional B. essential B. ashamed B. crisis B. opportunity B. look B. impressed B. wherever | C. awful C. fines C. instrument C. buildings C. excited C. patience C. thought C. off C. curiously C. unconscious C. enjoying C. rough C. dynamic C. superior C. particular C. conflict C. aid C. smile C. inspired C. whoever | D. breathless D. prices D. background D. crowd D. amused D. technique D. appreciation D. over D. seriously D. elderly D teaching D. crazy D. hopeful D. helpful D. anxious D. solution D. happiness D. fight D. satisfied D. whenever | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1-5: CABDB 6-10: ABDCA 11-15: BCDDA 16-20: ABCCD | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The silent young woman in bed number six is called Jasmine. So am I, but names are only superficial things, floats on the surface of the water, and we share deeper connections than that. That is why she fascinates me-why I spend my off-duty time sitting beside her. Today is difficult. The ward (病房) is full of patients and I am kept busy emptying bed-pans, filling out forms, changing dressings. Finally, late in the afternoon, I get a few moments to make coffee, to take it over to the orange plastic chair beside her bed. I am thankful to be off my feet, glad to be in her company once again. "Hello, Jasmine," I say, as if greeting myself. She does not reply. Jasmine never replies. She is down too deep. She has been sea-damaged. I too am the daughter of a fisherman, so I choose my words like fish-hooks, cast them into her ears, imagine them sinking down through cold, dark water. Down to wherever she may be. "I have little time today," I tell her, touching her hair. With Jasmine, it is always difficult not to touch. She is that rare thing, a truly beautiful woman. Because of this, people invent reasons to walk by. I catch them looking, drinking her in, feeding on her. They are barracuda (梭鱼), all of them. Great beauty is something Jasmine and I do not share. I am glad of it. "Your father may be here soon," I say. "Last week he said he would come." Jasmine says nothing. Her left eyelid flickers, perhaps. It is two months since the incident on her father"s fishing boat, since she fell overboard, sank, became entangled in the nets. It was some time before anyone noticed, then there was panic. Her father hauled her back on board and sailed for home. When he finally arrived, he carried ashore what he thought was his daughter"s body. "Jasmine," I whisper. I want her to take our baited (用作诱醒的) name. I want her to swallow it. Fortunately, there was a doctor in the village that morning, a young man visiting relatives. It was he who brought this drowned woman back from the brink, he who told me her story. She opened her eyes, he said, looked up at her father and spoke a single word-then sank again, this time into coma. Barracuda. That is what Jasmine said. When her father visits, he touches her hair, kisses her cheek, sits in the orange plastic chair at the side of her bed and holds her hand. Like my own father, he has the big, brown, life-roughened hands of a fisherman. He too smells of the sea, and pretends he is a good, simple man. Jasmine. We share so much, we are almost one. I remember early mornings, my hair touched to wake me, my father lifting me half-asleep from my bed, carrying me, dropping me into his boat. His voice rough in my ear, his hands rough on my skin. I never wanted to go, but I was just a child. He did as he wished. I remember salt water, hot sun, my mother shrinking on the shore. I remember the rocking of the boat, the screams of the seagulls. "Jasmine, you have a life inside you. Can"t you hear it calling?" Nothing. The ward door bangs, and I see Jasmine"s father walking towards us, carrying flowers. He smiles at me. Even in death, my own child had my father"s smile, and Jasmine"s will have this man"s. I know it. He stops by her bed and touches her hair. Something stirs deep inside me. I watch Jasmine"s eyelids, waiting for her to bite. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1. Why does the author show special sympathy for Jasmine? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A. They share the same name. B. Jasmine looks very fascinating. C. They have much in common. D. Jasmine"s father is very pitiful. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2. From the passage we can learn that Jasmine"s father _________. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A. comes to see his daughter every day B. is a good and simple man in the author"s eyes C. took his daughter out to the sea against her will D. thought his daughter dead when back to the shore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3. What kind of situation is Jasmine in now? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A. She is unconscious. B. She is nearly dying. C. She is completely deaf. D. She is in a bad mood. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4. We can learn from the story that __________. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A. ihe author enjoys her early life on the sea B. Jasmine was pulled out of water without delay C. the author spends her duty time attending Jasmine D. it was a young doctor who happened to save Jasmine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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My little angel, you are teaching me how selfless real love is! My wife called, "How long will you be with that 1 ? Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food?" I threw the paper away and 2 to the place. My daughter, Sindu, sat there, tears welling up in her eyes. In front of her was a big bowl of rice. I 3 the bowl and persuaded: "Sindu, why not take a few mouthfuls of this rice?" "Ok, Dad. I will eat - not just a few mouthfuls, 4 the whole lot of this. But…" Sindu hesitated. "Dad, if I eat this entire rice, will you give me 5 I ask for?" "Promise." I 6 . After eating the rice painfully, Sindu came to me, her eyes wide with 7 . Now I became a bit 8 . "Dear, you shouldn"t insist on 9 a computer or any such 10 things. Dad does not have that kind of money right now." 11 , "I want to have my head shaved off(剃掉), this Sunday!" was her demand (要求), which was far 12 my belief. On Monday morning, I 13 Sindu at her school and watched her walking towards her classroom. She turned around and 14 . I waved back with a smile. Just then, a boy, who just got out of a car, shouted, "Sindu, please wait for me!" What 15 me was the hairless head of that boy. "Sir, your daughter is 16 indeed!" Without introducing herself, a lady standing beside me continued, "That boy is my son, who lost all his 17 because of a disease. He 18 to come back to school fearing the unintentional(无意的)but 19 teasing(取笑)of the schoolmates. Sindu visited him last week, and promised him that she would take care of the teasing issue. But, I 20 imagined she would sacrifice her lovely hair for my son!" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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